Improvement in double frillings



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

C. O. CROSBY AND HENRY KELLOGG, OF HAVEN, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN DOUBLE FRILLINGS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 38,289, dated April 28,1863.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it knownthat we, C. O. CROSBY and HENRY KELLOGG, of the city of NewHaven,

in the State of Connecticut, have invented aV new article ofmanufacture, which we term Double Frilling, and thefollowing,takeninconnection with the drawings, is a full, clear, and exact descriptionthereof.

In the drawings, Figure lis a plan ofa piece of frilling, and Fig. 2 isan edge view of the frilling cut intwo longitudinally along the centerthereof.

This article of manufacture is made from ribbon or narrow strips offabric with or without selva ges and either hemmed or unhem med on theedges. We prefer to make it of thin muslin with both edges hemmed.

The article can be made most conveniently on a trilling-machine, anapplication for a patent on which is now pending; but it may be made byother machinery or by hand.

In order to make the article we take a narrow strip of a suitable fabricand hem both edges thereof. The whole fabric is then plaited up intoregular and narrow folds, as shown in Fig. 2, and these folds aresecuredin place by two lines of stitching running parallel or nearly so withthe length of the finished article. By this Vconstruction a center lineof folds, plaits, or frills, each held in place by stitching, runsthrough the center of the article, these plaits lying flat one upon theother, and outside ot' this center the plaits expand or open gradually,giving the appearance shown on the drawings.

When the machine invented by us is used, these plaits or crimps are madeby an automatic crimper, are folded flat as fast as made by a smoother,so as to have a welldefined edge to each crimp or plait, and are held inplace while the two seams are sewed through them by stitching mechanism.

When the article is made by hand, the crimps may be made by a knife ortwo knives, and the plaits should then be ironed down to define theiredges, which are held in place by starch or gum applied previously andhardened by the iron, and then two seams should be sewtd lengthwise, soas to secure them in place.

We prefer to make the article by machinery, knowing that when so madeitpresents a much handsomer and more regular appearance, and that it canbemanufactured much more cheaply by machinery than by hand.

The essential characteristics of the article are, that it is made of onepiece, that it has in the center a line of crimps, each with awelldefined edge sewed down, so as to lie flat, and held in place by atleast two longitudinal seams, and that beyond the seams, and on eachside ofthe center, project two frills composed of crimps graduallyopening ont from each other as they extend from the seam to the edges ofthe finished article.

The article is useful as an edging or trimming for dresses and similararticles, and may be used whole or cut longitudinally through thecenter. More than two rows ot'seams may be used, but the articlemusthave at least two rows of stitches, as a b c d. rlhe center of thearticle is shown ate e and the expanding crimps of the edges at ff. Wesometimes intend to vary the crimping by making the crimps of differentlengths, or to leave short spaces in the fabric uncrimped.

We claim as ot' our invention- The articlev of manufacture called doublefrilling,7 having the essential characteristics substantially as hereindescribed, or, in other words, made of one piece with a center line ofcrimps or plaits, each with a welldefined edge secured in place and heldiiat and smooth by at least two longitudinal seams, with two frillscomposed of crimps extending outward from such seams, the crimps orplaits outside ofthe seams gradually expanding to the edges of thecompleted article.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names.

C. O. CROSBY. HENRY KELLOGG.

ln presence of- LucrUs G. PEcK, C. M. WEL'roN. i

